Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-03-14
Death Of Mrs. Margaret E. shradcr.

the home OF her daughter. Mrs. Col
Clark, in this city. The funeral seryi-
ces were conducted by Rev. S. w.
Eaton, her old pastor, assisted by
Rev Mr. Grinnell For several years
Mrs. Shrader has been something of an
invalid and for year or more has been
a great sufferer. The last weeks of her
illness have been especially trying and
death came to her as a friend who
brought welcome message. Mrs.
Shrader's life has been passed since girl
hood in this place, and is so well known
to all her friends that it is almost super
fluous to dwell upon those qualities of
! character which made her so completely
womanly and so beloved and gave her
in death that steadfast and serene faith
in which fear has no part. Her life work
was done, she said, and although she
could not understand why she must go
by the way of so much suffering, she was
waiting and quite really. With rare
fortitude and unshrinking courage she
bore the agony, from which the tender
and loving care of those who watched
over her, could not save her, and through
it all, from the first Lremonition of the
suffering that was in store for her, to the
last she was at all times wonderfully
patient and accomplishing. Her friends
always found cheerful welcome, and
she retained, though past three score
years, certain childlike enthusiasm and
vivacity that made her an entertaining
companion for young and old. She was
interested in all that interested those
about her, and in all that was transpir-
ing in the world of larger events, and in
political andsocial issues. In the last years
of her life, which were years of leisure
she kept her mind alert by constant read
ing of the papers and magazines of the
day and in this found one of her chief
enjoyments. Life had for her still many
attractions but death had no fears.
During the last days happily for her an
unconscious sleep fell upon her, broken
only at long intervals by brief CLEANS of
returning consciousness. Waking one
day she said to her daughter who sat by
her 81 shall die now for / have
almost touched the other
side and have seen and heard other
sights and sounds" Last Monday the
deep lethargy was broken for the last
time in this life and full consciousness
returned once more. 1t was but for
brief space, only an hour in which to
say farewell. All those who stood
about her she recognized and singing
in clear voice the words of an old
familiar hymn. sleep again fell upon
her which, last Thursday, merged into
the sleep of death.
Mrs. Schrader was born on the 18th
day of March 1914 in West Virginia.
When but seven years old her family
moved to Indiana long. h ard journey
across wilderness and wintered there.
In 1925 they came TO Lafayette county
and the following year to Mineral Point
where they built q log house which still
stands and still serves as a dwelling
house. Here in 1881 she married Mr..
Harvey Pepper and moved TO the farm
not far from the town, where Col.
Charleston now resides 10 1882 the
Black Hawk war compelled her to take
refuge in the fort at Mineral Point
| while her husband went with the ex-
petition against the Indians. In the
fall of 36 they again left their home
on the farm and settled at Pigeon
where Mr.. Pepper built the mill which
until a few years ago was standing and
was known rs the ''oid Calder MILL"
| A year later they came to Lancaster
and moved iuto log house in the East
ern part of town and there kept hotel
until they moved into a larger hotel
which occupied the site where now
! is Howe & Bakers store. In 1912 Mr.
| Pepper died, leaving Mrs. Shrader with
| three children. now Mr.. John Pepper
of Boscobel, Mrs. Col. Clark and Mrs.
Thode Burr, of this city. When MIR
Pepper was buried, the little cemetery
where on Saturday Mrs. Shrader was
laid beside him, had only short time
before been set apart for that purpose
| by Gov. Dewey to receive the remains